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title = "Fires, covid, and racism"
date = "2020-09-10"
description = "Yet more ramblings."
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I took gnusocial.no down last week after running it for three years. I
took over due to burn out from the previous admin. I do not regret
running it since I learned so much, but doing so took so much of my
energy and attention. I already feel the relief, though so much has
happened, I think the net level of work load on my life remains about
the same.

[My final post on the
site.](https://web.archive.org/web/20200901035541/https://gnusocial.no/notice/6923469)

As of now, I do not have a microblog or social media. This might change.
I wish for an RSS-based tool...

Where I live we avoided the fires and smoke in 2019, but since 2015 we
have had a steady worsening each year. Or at least my memory tells me
so. I remember the summer of 2017, I went for a bike ride in July and
the next day the air became disgusting so much that I rode less and less
for the rest of the summer. I used to have an office view looking east
to Mt Hood. On some days I could not see the mountain because the air
quality blocked it with smoke. But I always call anything caused by
humans smog.
